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when alexander looked across the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.

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Originally Posted by kgveteran

I think Hans Gruber from Die Hard used that quote, nice.

But I think the actual quote is:

"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer"

The quote appears to be a distortion of Plutarch's "Life of Alexander"

"Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus of the infinite number of worlds, he wept, and when his friends asked him what was the matter, he replied, "Is it not a matter for tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one? "

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence, than it does knowledge. Charles Darwin